The reality I've learned is your intuition isn't necessarily wrong, it might just need more information. Arisotlian..."physics" isn't wrong neccessarily, it's j

The reality I've learned is your intuition isn't necessarily wrong, it might just need more information. Arisotlian..."physics" isn't wrong neccessarily, it's just a model of motion under certain conditions (everyday conditions on Earth under an atmosphere or/and on friction-full surfaces) Newton's 1st can be thought of a generalization of Arisotle's (or anyone's) intuition...which to make things worse, physics' 101 students are not taught about. One of the things I think was the best ideas I learned in physics is that physics is all about approximations. Theorists tend to forget this annoyingly, but it helps keep naive scientists from using words like "fundamental" without qualifications, or saying garbage statements like "Newton's law X is wrong."